Yan Shu

Yachun Mi, Yu Li, Yan Shu et al.

Video Quality Assessment (VQA) aims to simulate the process of perceiving video quality by the human visual system (HVS). The judgments made by HVS are always influenced by human subjective feelings. However, most of the current VQA research focuses on capturing various distortions in the spatial and temporal domains of videos, while ignoring the impact of human feelings. In this paper, we propose CLiF-VQA, which considers both features related to human feelings and spatial features of videos. In order to effectively extract features related to human feelings from videos, we explore the consistency between CLIP and human feelings in video perception for the first time. Specifically, we design multiple objective and subjective descriptions closely related to human feelings as prompts. Further we propose a novel CLIP-based semantic feature extractor (SFE) which extracts features related to human feelings by sliding over multiple regions of the video frame. In addition, we further capture the low-level-aware features of the video through a spatial feature extraction module. The two different features are then aggregated thereby obtaining the quality score of the video. Extensive experiments show that the proposed CLiF-VQA exhibits excellent performance on several VQA datasets.

Yan Shu, Weichao Zeng, Zhenhang Li et al.

Visual text, a pivotal element in both document and scene images, speaks volumes and attracts significant attention in the computer vision domain. Beyond visual text detection and recognition, the field of visual text processing has experienced a surge in research, driven by the advent of fundamental generative models. However, challenges persist due to the unique properties and features that distinguish text from general objects. Effectively leveraging these unique textual characteristics is crucial in visual text processing, as observed in our study. In this survey, we present a comprehensive, multi-perspective analysis of recent advancements in this field. Initially, we introduce a hierarchical taxonomy encompassing areas ranging from text image enhancement and restoration to text image manipulation, followed by different learning paradigms. Subsequently, we conduct an in-depth discussion of how specific textual features such as structure, stroke, semantics, style, and spatial context are seamlessly integrated into various tasks. Furthermore, we explore available public datasets and benchmark the reviewed methods on several widely-used datasets. Finally, we identify principal challenges and potential avenues for future research. Our aim is to establish this survey as a fundamental resource, fostering continued exploration and innovation in the dynamic area of visual text processing.